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Greenpeace campaigners stand against ocean pollution

Shawdesh Desk: Greenpeace campaigners have boarded two Royal Dutch Shell oil platforms in a protest against leaving parts of old rigs in the North Sea, the environmental group said Monday.

Five ‘robbers’ killed in Sunderbans, Habiganj gunfights

Shawdesh Desk: At least five suspected robbers were killed in ‘gunfights’ with law enforcers in the Sunderbans and Habiganj on Tuesday. In Sunderbans, four suspected forest robbers were killed in

Five Gaibandha war criminals get death sentence

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Samrat put on 10-day remand

Shawdesh Desk: A Dhaka court on Tuesday put Juba League’s expelled president Ismail Chowdhury Samrat on a 10-day remand in two cases. Metropolitan magistrate Tofazzal Hossain allowed the Crime Investigation

ECNEC clears two new MRT projects involving Tk 94,000cr

Shawdesh Desk: The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council on Tuesday approved two mega MRT projects — Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development Project (Line-1) and Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit

UK, EU enter pivotal week that determines fate of Brexit

Shawdesh Desk: The United Kingdom and the European Union on Monday enter a pivotal week that determines if they are still on course to reach amicable divorce terms — and

Worrying political, patriarchal bias in sexual harassment cell

THE demand for a sexual harassment policy in educational institutions was realised in 2009. In a public interest litigation filed by the Bangladesh National Women’s Lawyer Association, the High Court

BUET admission test held

Shawdesh desk: The first-year admission test for the academic session of 2019-20 at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has been held. The entry test began at 9.00 am